Woo! First review (and post) of the New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic New Year’s Eve and an amazing start to 2018 so far. ❤ My boyfriend helped assure that much for me by stopping by our local comic book store New Year’s Eve and picking up this delightful title that just came out at the end of December. Needless to say, I about screamed with joy when he pulled into the parking lot and revealed his master plan.
Brian K. Vaughan (the writer) and Fiona Staples (the illustrator) continue to weave their outlandish space opera of epic proportions in this volume, but add in some of the fun of the Old Wild West along the way. I don’t want to get into any spoiler territory, so we’ll keep things fairly vague as I talk about my feelings on this volume. And trust me, I got plenty of the feels for this series. ❤
One thing I really like about the series as a whole is that it has a lot of heart, but not in a corny, mushy, or preachy sort of way. This volume is no exception. It continues to explore the theme of family, and what exactly family means when you really get down to it. It challenges convention at every turn and makes no apologies, and I utterly love it for that. ❤
We see old and new faces alike in this volume and are presented with some pretty interesting “what-if” moments. It confronts deep-rooted feelings of both tragedy and hope head-on and still continues to surprise the reader with just about every turn of the page. This is a series that can make you cry one moment and then laugh another.
Volume for volume, Saga makes for a quick, intense and often-times hilarious and utterly random emotional roller coaster. The characters are so well-written and full of their own troubles and flaws that it makes them feel completely human despite, ya know, the whole televisions for heads, and having horns and/or wings thing.
I honestly feel that just about everyone can find SOMETHING they can relate to somewhere in this series. So, if you have yet to hop on the Saga bandwagon, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???! Do yourself a favor and GET. ON. THAT.
5/5 Stars.
IgnitedMoth 
I like how I showed YOU this comic and now you’ve far surpassed me in reading it lmao.
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Haha That’s true! I’ve been devouring that series. 🙂 You’ll get caught up though, too, and then we can geek out about it. 😛
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I just love your reviews and the pics you use with them! badass!😊
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Aw, thank you so much! 😀 I really appreciate that. ❤
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OMG I FORGOT THIS WAS OUT. *ahem* Sorry for the yelling, but I totally forgot that this cam out this month. Ack! I thought I preordered it though, hm. I’ll need to look into this and remedy it if it’s not the case. I’m not shocked that Volume 8 is good. The end of Volume 7 had me in tears.
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Same here! This volume felt like just what I needed after the last one. 🙂 I can’t wait to hear what you think of it after you read it.
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Thank you for reminding me AGAIN to buy it lol. I just did 🙂
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Awesome! 😀 Can’t wait for you to get to read it!
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